Bagpuss

Leicester looked the best on paper to me once Hans was brought in and Bates/Proctor released. Just didn't happen for them though.

This team could finish top or bottom.....Doyle, King and Starke are the only three who you know what you are going to get from. The others could all perform like last year and it's a terrible season, or they could all raise their game to a level they have reached before or near to it and the Witches could be serious challengers.

From Daily Mail; 'The Oxford Stadium squatted in the gloom on its site near the ring-road, dilapidated and half-forgotten amid the weeds of disuse and disinterest. I tried to visit it a couple of times out of curiosity but the path was always blocked by gates and padlocks. Most people gave up on it ever staging sport again but next year, for the first time since it closed in 2007, it is due to host Speedway once more as the home of the reformed Oxford Cheetahs. So often, we hear stories of sport shrinking and stadiums being allowed to fall into disrepair but this, tentatively, at least, feels like a sporting resurrection, new shoots appearing in a sport that has a dedicated, enthusiastic band of followers. I have never been to watch Speedway but I’m looking forward to putting that right.'

I'm sure the dog track would have had something to do with it too.

Indeed. 'Self employed tradesman in deciding who he wants to work for shock'. Deals done. Who gives a monkeys what Danny Ford does or doesn't say.

Thought not

They'll be looking for polished performances.....

Adrian Miedzinski anyone?

Ah yes, hence my confusion, apologies. Related I assume?

Not the same Rempala was it?

Ideally you'd want it somewhere more in the middle of the UK but it is what it is, get it streamed for those unable to attend.

This could be the move Kemp needs to kick-start his career and unlock his undoubted talent.

Despite not matching the heat leader power Poole will no doubt shell out for I think this will be the team to beat, the bottom four is far better than anyone else will come up with and there is loads of scope for improvement across the majority of the team. Could be that first league title that the Glasgow promotion deserve for their hard work.

Yet you dropped down so you could race on Wednesdays You do wonder if some mystery regulation will now pop up from nowhere to scupper Glasgow's team plans.....!

Not at all, Buster has done it for years and it's embarrassing and cringeworthy when he does. Bottom line is that riders come and go as self employed sportsmen, you win some and lose some. The reaction from Dorset has surprised me to be honest, lacks class. You are allowed to criticise your own promotion by the way, its ok

If our friend Lord Ford has been screwed over then bloody good job, he's done it enough to others in the past. FWIW the press release sounds like a toys-out-of-the-pram load of cobblers to appease the regulars, although I expect we'll never know the truth.

Plenty good enough

2006 I reckon, was there in my days of following Lynn all over the place.

Textbook Shovlar bait mate, don't nibble!

Of course it's quite possible the Beeb have got it completely wrong.

Amen to that.

Radio Norfolk reporting this morning that @AlexBrady spoke to 200 riders about being in the 2022 side! Hope he's got plenty of free minutes on his mobile

Me too

Based on the strongly rumoured riders completing Wolves and BV I would go for Sheffield Peterborough Belle Vue Ipswich Wolves Lynn However apart from Sheffield who clearly look the strongest I think the others are very close on paper and could finish in any order really.

I think there has been plenty of thought put into this team, they've built it to always have a strong reserve, they went out and signed the best visiting rider from last season and they've brought a rider back to the UK who has been absent for a few seasons. And in those two they have signed two all action riders to increase the liklihood of good racing. There is obviously once again a strict budget but certainly no lack of thought, the question as always is will the riders be good enough. On paper we probably look 6th best but much closer to the other teams than last year when we started with massive risks in Bridger, Proctor and Kinsley. No reason if things click that we can't get into the Play Offs and from there who knows?